Delphix adds Cloud-ready features to bridge the gap from the data centre to the Cloud

Delphix has updated its DaaS Platform to support Amazon GovCloud, OpenStack, and KVM hypervisor environments for simple migration to both private and public clouds. With support for Amazon GovCloud, Delphix enables government agencies to achieve successful cloud migration to Amazon Web Services while increasing data security, gaining data agility, and lowering cost.

Cloud deployments are becoming not just feasible but essential for government agencies. The cloud promises transformative gains in execution, increased service offerings, and lowered costs. The “Cloud First” mandate has spurred agencies to migrate many of their non-product applications to the cloud, however these agencies face several challenges, including the complexity of deployments, governance, and costs. Cloud computing opens many new opportunities for faster execution, increased service offerings, and lower infrastructure costs, but complexity and risk concerns often stall progress or limit the type of applications that agencies are comfortable migrating.

According to IDC, the global cloud market, including private, public, and hybrid clouds, will hit $118 billion in 2015 and crest at $200 billion by 2018, but organisations still face challenges. While the per-gigabyte cost of storage is low, added compute and IPOS expenses can quickly counter balance the overall cloud benefits. The associated cost and pace of regulatory reform is proving unsustainable for many government agencies, especially in meeting new security standards and delivering necessary data to support compliance reporting. In addition, many of these same organisations are unable to justify the risk of having sensitive data in a public cloud. This is especially true in industries such as finance, retail, government, and healthcare where regulations mandate protection of sensitive data.

“Getting data from the data centre to private and public clouds is a major obstacle for cloud initiatives, both for migrations and continuing operations,” said Dan Graves, VP of product management, Delphix. “With support for these major cloud platforms, Delphix has made true Data as a Service available. Our goal is to make cloud migration as easy and low-cost as possible, for any type of cloud.”

The Delphix DaaS software platform transforms application projects by enabling on-demand access to data. IT and development teams can enable continuous application delivery, accelerate ERP upgrades, and cut costs and risk in cloud migrations. By virtualising the entire application stack, the Delphix DaaS Platform delivers the right data to the right team at the right time, including delivering full environments for development, testing and reporting. Combining these virtual data delivery capabilities with the patented data masking technology from Delphix protects sensitive information and enables organisations to operate efficiently and increase data agility, management, and movement to the cloud, while complying with industry regulations.

New to the Delphix DaaS Platform is feature support for Amazon GovCloud, OpenStack, and KVM hypervisor. Organisations and agencies moving to the cloud can now achieve cloud migration objectives faster and at a lower cost by:
Enabling faster migration to private, public, and hybrid cloud services
Cutting cloud data management operating costs
Improving security and governance in the cloud